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Showing difference between now() and a stored date in Mysql Table

Howdy y'all

Got a 500 point question to the first buckeroo who can help me out here. Should be easy for some php pro; here goes:

Every time I "update" a record it updates a column called 'upgrade_time' with UNIX_TIMESTAMP()+1000, this works fine.

When I display the time 'till next upgrade, I want to show the time remaining between now() and whatever value is in upgrade_time in this format: days:hours:seconds. Can you show me how to do this?

rhinez0rz

ASKER

Nobody?

Khanh Doan

$timediff = TIMENOW - $timestamp;

if ($timediff < 3600)
{
      if ($timediff < 120)
      {
            $returndate = $vbphrase['1_minute_ago'];
      }
      else
      {
            $returndate = construct_phrase($vbphrase['x_minutes_ago'], intval($timediff / 60));
      }
}
else if ($timediff < 7200)
{
      $returndate = $vbphrase['1_hour_ago'];
}
else if ($timediff < 86400)
{
      $returndate = construct_phrase($vbphrase['x_hours_ago'], intval($timediff / 3600));
}
else if ($timediff < 172800)
{
      $returndate = $vbphrase['1_day_ago'];
}
else if ($timediff < 604800)
{
      $returndate = construct_phrase($vbphrase['x_days_ago'], intval($timediff / 86400));
}
else if ($timediff < 1209600)
{
      $returndate = $vbphrase['1_week_ago'];
}
else if ($timediff < 3024000)
{
      $returndate = construct_phrase($vbphrase['x_weeks_ago'], intval($timediff / 604900));
}

Try this

From function vbdate() of vBulletin
Bonmat86.

rhinez0rz

ASKER

Figured it out myself:

SELECT UNIX_TIMESTAMP(upgrade_date) - UNIX_TIMESTAMP(now()) AS difference FROM tbl_resource);

ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION

DarthMod

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